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City Transport

Big Bus Tour

The carefully designed tour takes you to all the famous landmarks; from the Jade Buddha temple to the Oriental Pearl Television Tower, from People’s Square to the Bund, Shanghai’s world famous waterfront. Open-top buses run regularly and you are able to hop on and off at a variety of interesting places.

Shanghai Maglev Train

The demonstration line of the maglev train is the important project of the Shanghai traffic development during the tenth five-year development period of the nation and is also the first maglev train used in business in the world with the function of transporting, displaying, tourism and sightseeing. the magnetic suspension train is from Longyang stop of the no.2 subway in the west to Pu Dong international airport in the east which eased the heavy traffic between the city and pudong airport. the whole line was 30km long, including the upper departing line and the lower arriving line with the speed of 430km/h. it will cost us 8 minutes for a single line. since march, 29th, 2004, the magnetic suspension train has adjusted the running time. in former time, the train works half a day during work time and a whole day at weekend. Nowadays, it opens from 8:30am to 5:30 pm everyday at the interval of 20 minutes with 54 schedules in total.

Taxi

There are about 50.000 Taxies in Shanghai most of which are santana. the largest Taxi companies in Shanghai are Volks Wagen (lake blue), Qiang Sheng(yellow), Johnson(white), Bus(green)and Hai bo(blue).

Public Bus

There are more than 1,000 bus lines in Shanghai city and about 50 bus lines are being opened, adjusted or lengthened every year.

Grouped by time, there are daytime buses, the rush hour buses in the morning and afternoon headed with 2 of the license number and the night buses headed with 3.
Classified by area, there are western pu river area, eastern Pu River area, around the Pu River (bridge and tunnel), and the suburban area.
Grouped by ticket, there are no-conductor buses with one Yuan ticket (within 13 km) or 1.5yuan ticket (more than 13 km), air-conditioned buses with 2 Yuan ticket and special lined buses with multiple tickets.